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Betty Ford

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Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers in the nation, died on July 8, 2011, in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 93.